Is My Second Life a Healing Life? - Ch. 90

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I saw comments saying that the series wasn't well received when rereading a few of the earlier chapters when the pacing really ramped up. Definitely feels like an axe, although at least they had the time to speedrun through a reasonable plot and all the potential plot twists.

It's a shame because the premise and setting were much more interesting than much of the popular dungeon/hunter/constellation copy paste stories. I liked it, even though it could have been much more.
 
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It's a shame because the premise and setting were much more interesting than much of the popular dungeon/hunter/constellation copy paste stories. I liked it, even though it could have been much more.
Unfortunately, that's also why it wasn't popular. It didn't copy/paste that formula, which people want more of. This series took a risk, and sadly failed.
 
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While it does feel rushed, I feel like the author's skill as a writer really shone through. The ending feels like a major W for humanity.
Not just that, but even the art itself. Author has an author note chapter. It doesnt say much, its just that he initially wanted this to be an actual healing life with a lot of twists and dark turns, but as he was writing/drawing the manhwa even he realized "Where is the healing?" lol

After that he was trying to include some positivity in the way Eugene was written, but by then it was a bit too late.

Anyhow, I feel a bit excited for the future of this author/artist, because goddamn this had an interesting premise, an actually mindblowing art, and the artstyle is unique too (not just Solo Leveling copy).

Overall, I think its 6-7 out of 10. A lot better than some reviews make it out to be, but definitely has its problems, which in the end makes sense considering how this was the author's first official work. Good learning experience I guess.
 
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I saw comments saying that the series wasn't well received when rereading a few of the earlier chapters when the pacing really ramped up. Definitely feels like an axe, although at least they had the time to speedrun through a reasonable plot and all the potential plot twists.

It's a shame because the premise and setting were much more interesting than much of the popular dungeon/hunter/constellation copy paste stories. I liked it, even though it could have been much more.
I mean, considering I personally stopped reading at like chap 50~60, I can understand why people considered it unengaging.

I still resent the author for building up the idea of "actually learning string magic in a string magic school", but instead went the DBZ route of having the MC just auto-gain the strongest spells that come his way, and push forward fight, after fight without knowing even how to fight. It was like watching Fin from Adventure Time again.
The emphasis on Korean-drama (relationship melodrama) was also a turn off.
That'd pretty much where my interest waned considerably.

It's at least nice to see how it ended, I guess? Kudos to the translator for having the passion to see it through. I can barely have the passion to play video games.

P.S: good point on "where's the healing?" that PreStone made. The story definitely went off the rails the author initially intended, or envisioned.
 
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I dont know about others, but i definitely feel one piece energy in this manhwa, especially the interactions between characters. So, regardless of anyone ratings, this is one of the peak manhwa for me.
 

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Hmm.. I liked the pre-academy vibe, since it felt sort of grim-dark and the characters all seemed super well written. Then once we got into academy it became your typical shounen school manga and felt very generic. Post Eugene training arc shit went so off the rails that everything before that felt pointless, and then it was all one long fight scene until the end. None of the guys from the academy felt relevant anymore at this point. They tried to include some small parts that tied the kingdoms fighting there, but again, any worldbuilding regarding that felt pointless since we had long since lost connection to any of that throughout the series..

All in all I'm very disappointed with how this went honestly, I wish we could have stuck more along the lines of what we had pre-academy in this story. It felt like author didn't plan things out on a beginning-middle-end scale, and was mostly just making shit up as they went with a very vague sense of direction

The art was by far the main highlights of this, and I got some absolutely gorgeous screenshots of Eugene to keep. But uh, yeah, I'm sort of glad it ended at this point
 
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I'm happy to see it finished! Art was beautiful and the story, although a bit rushed, wrapped up nicely. Happy that the uncle could get his "redemption".

Thank you for all the chapters!:hearts:
 

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